Pterinea demissa

Pterinea demissa

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On record

Recorded, not inferred
Sits inside
PterineaPBDB
Diet
suspension feederPBDB, for Pterinea
Life habit
epifaunalPBDB, for Pterinea
Motility
stationary, attachedPBDB, for Pterinea
Vision
blindPBDB, for Bivalvia
Environment
marine,brackishPBDB, for Ostreida

Time the record covers

At least 700 thousand years on record.

The record covers at least 450.2 Mya to 449.5 Mya. No occurrence read is dated outside 458.2 Mya to 443.1 Mya.

Ordovician — about 94 of 94 occurrencesOrdovicianSilurian — about 0 of 94 occurrences459–458 Mya — about 0.0 occurrences458–458 Mya — about 0.2 occurrences458–457 Mya — about 0.2 occurrences457–457 Mya — about 0.2 occurrences457–456 Mya — about 0.2 occurrences456–455 Mya — about 0.2 occurrences455–455 Mya — about 0.2 occurrences455–454 Mya — about 0.2 occurrences454–454 Mya — about 0.2 occurrences454–453 Mya — about 0.2 occurrences453–453 Mya — about 0.2 occurrences453–452 Mya — about 0.2 occurrences452–452 Mya — about 0.2 occurrences452–451 Mya — about 0.2 occurrences451–451 Mya — about 0.7 occurrences451–450 Mya — about 5 occurrences450–450 Mya — about 28 occurrences450–449 Mya — about 7 occurrences449–449 Mya — about 7 occurrences449–448 Mya — about 7 occurrences448–447 Mya — about 7 occurrences447–447 Mya — about 7 occurrences447–446 Mya — about 7 occurrences446–446 Mya — about 7 occurrences446–445 Mya — about 5 occurrences445–445 Mya — about 0.7 occurrences445–444 Mya — about 0.7 occurrences444–444 Mya — about 0.7 occurrences444–443 Mya — about 0.7 occurrences443–443 Mya — about 0.0 occurrences450.2 Mya – 449.5 Mya458.7 Mya442.6 Mya

94 occurrences of Pterinea demissa on record, most of them in the Ordovician. Bar height is expected occurrences, not a count: each fossil is spread across the span it is dated to, so a tall narrow bar means tight dating and a low wide one means loose.

When

94 occurrences

These are dates about fossils, not the animal: the record can only begin after it arose and end before it died out, so either end may reach further. Shares are expected occurrences: a fossil dated to a span is counted partly in each period it straddles. More on what this infers.

Found in

26 formations

Corryville — 39.17°N, 84.12°WCorryville — 39.30°N, 84.40°WCorryville — 38.68°N, 83.79°WWaynesville — 39.42°N, 85.01°WWaynesville — 38.00°N, 85.50°WWaynesville — 39.35°N, 85.10°WWaynesville — 39.58°N, 84.95°WWaynesville — 39.48°N, 84.07°WSunset — 39.34°N, 84.39°WSunset — 39.37°N, 84.39°WSunset — 39.54°N, 84.34°WSunset — 39.41°N, 84.50°WSunset — 39.13°N, 84.62°WSunset — 39.03°N, 83.85°WWaynesville — 45.75°N, 81.60°WWaynesville — 45.50°N, 75.00°WWaynesville — 43.59°N, 79.72°WWaynesville — 45.90°N, 82.26°WWaynesville — 43.47°N, 79.69°WWaynesville — 45.91°N, 81.89°WWaynesville — 45.56°N, 73.18°WWaynesville — 43.70°N, 79.51°WWaynesville — 45.36°N, 75.35°WWhitewater — 39.83°N, 84.89°WWhitewater — 39.42°N, 85.01°WWhitewater — 38.00°N, 85.50°WWhitewater — 39.39°N, 83.93°WWhitewater — 38.93°N, 83.52°WOregonia — 39.54°N, 84.34°WOregonia — 39.33°N, 84.07°WOregonia — 38.58°N, 83.70°WOregonia — 39.03°N, 83.85°WLorraine — 45.97°N, 81.93°WLorraine — 46.22°N, 72.62°WLorraine — 45.74°N, 81.61°WLorraine — 43.59°N, 79.72°WLorraine — 45.38°N, 75.60°WLorraine — 45.56°N, 73.18°WBull Fork — 39.39°N, 83.92°WBull Fork — 38.40°N, 83.72°WMiamitown — 39.12°N, 84.51°WMiamitown — 39.17°N, 84.58°WMiamitown — 39.30°N, 84.40°WLiberty — 38.20°N, 85.57°WLiberty — 39.48°N, 84.05°WLiberty — 38.78°N, 85.37°WQueenston — 44.60°N, 80.58°WQueenston — 44.65°N, 80.67°WStonington — 45.67°N, 86.97°WBellevue — 39.17°N, 84.12°WBellevue — 38.68°N, 83.79°WFairview — 39.30°N, 84.40°WFairview — 38.68°N, 83.79°WNicolet River — 46.00°N, 72.00°WNicolet River — 45.45°N, 73.28°WKagawong — 45.97°N, 81.93°WKagawong — 45.94°N, 82.50°WArnheim — 39.00°N, 84.00°WLeipers — 35.50°N, 86.50°WGrant Lake — 39.25°N, 84.25°WGeorgian Bay — 43.67°N, 79.42°WBills Creek — 45.85°N, 85.88°WBig Hill — 45.83°N, 86.95°WGilbert — 37.58°N, 84.60°WTate — 37.58°N, 84.61°W

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The named rock units Pterinea demissa has been recovered from, largest first. Drawn where the rock is now, not where it formed. 2 further formations hold fewer occurrences each and are not listed. 1 occurrence has no formation on record, which is common for older literature.

Pterinea demissa and its relatives

Ordovician

Where Pterinea demissa and its relatives were recorded in the Ordovician.

Found in the same rock

383 taxa

The Paleobiology Database records 94 sites for Pterinea demissa, and this reads all of them. The number is how many of those sites it was catalogued from too. The 24 sharing the most are listed.

This is not a list of everything alive at the time. It is only what has come out of the same ground as this animal and been written down.

Entered from

12 references

Each of the 94 occurrences read was entered from one of these publications, ordered by how many each accounts for. This is not a search for papers mentioning the name. Entries link to doi.org where the Paleobiology Database holds an identifier, and to its own record where it does not. Relayed as the Paleobiology Database holds them, not checked against what they resolve to.

Media and terms

Media content1

Picture of Pterinea demissa

Source
iDigBio
Credit
via iDigBio
Licence
CC0
Commercial use
the licence allows it

No 3D scan was found. Smithsonian Open Access, MorphoSource and Sketchfab were all searched.

This is what the site found, which is not the same as what exists.

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What may have been alongside itPterinea through timeFormations of the OrdovicianThe world it lived on

Occurrence data from the Paleobiology Database, CC BY 4.0. (Conrad 1842)